page_title: Football in Bosnia and Herzegovina
section_title: National team of Bosnia and Herzegovina
hierarchical_section_title: Football in Bosnia and Herzegovina / National team of Bosnia and Herzegovina
caption_attribution_description: English: International friendly Austria vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2015-03-31, Vienna Deutsch: Freundschaftliches Länderspiel Österreich - Bosnien-Herzegowina am 31. März 2015 in Wien: Vedad Ibišević Türkçe: Ibišević, Bosna-Hersek formasıyla, 31 Mart 2015 tarihinde oynanan maçta.
context_page_description: Bosnia and Herzegovina's most popular sport is football.
context_section_description: The team has only qualified for a major international tournament once as an independent nation, reaching the 2014 FIFA World Cup. It is yet to qualify for a UEFA European Championship, coming closest by losing to Portugal in the play-offs for UEFA Euro 2012.
  Bosnia's home ground is Bilino Polje Stadium in the city of Zenica. The national team's first international victory as a FIFA member came against 1994 FIFA World Cup runners-up Italy on 6 November 1996. The national team's highest FIFA World Ranking was 13th in August 2013. October 2013 FIFA World Rankings, used to seed qualified teams in the 2014 FIFA World Cup Final Draw, placed Bosnia and Herzegovina as the highest ranked team of all former Yugoslav republics for the first time in history. In the past years, the national side finished twice among the top three best movers in FIFA World Ranking of the year. In their first game at their first World Cup, centre-forward Vedad Ibišević scored Bosnia's first ever goal at a major tournament in the country's history in a 1–2 loss to two-time World Cup winning opposition Argentina.
caption: Vedad Ibišević scored Bosnia's first ever FIFA World Cup goal in a 2–1 loss to Argentina.[1]
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